Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 19, 2022

Amphibians to marsupials huh?

No marsupials were drawn in the making of this cartoon

^Devolution of critical thinking.

It’s always the clown that has the nuclear bomb.

Hokay, first, how many creatures had to be in that car before a clown emerged and second, does this mean each clown that comes out has a nuclear bomb?! :-b

You can’t keep volatile people from having weapons, so you must keep the right to have your own… on both a national and a personal level.

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You got this on right on Mike! What a shame that we are destined to destroy ourselves through IGNORANCE AND GREED!!!

The Bomb is for the hurricane which is what a Fat Orange Clown would plan to use it. What could go wrong?

That clown coming out with the bomb represents all of us.

Sad but frighteningly true. I fear we are about to reset the world to ashes and cockroaches.

Impressive

Putin the Clown… nice imagery

Cruel. Cruel, but fair.

more like a devolution with the GOP lurking about the human race. How do I loathe thee, let me count the ways, you worthless swine afflicted upon our beloved country, the U.S. of A.

But why are there still fish?

From a review of “Pulp Empire The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism:” "Not that comic books weren’t also useful for those in power. Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, erstwhile director of the Manhattan Project, recruited the comic strip characters Blondie and Dagwood, along with Mandrake the Magician, Popeye, and the warring couple Maggie and Jiggs, to explain the mysteries of atomic fission in a King Features comic, “Splitting the Atom—Starring Dagwood and Blondie.” Millions of copies were distributed. Some even made light of the situation: “Donald Duck’s Atom Bomb,” created by the Disney studio for a Cheerios breakfast cereal, has Donald unleash a home-made bomb (whose recipe includes a “mashed meteorites,” “the juice of one lightning bolt,” and “ten cat hairs”) on Duckburg, then recoup the disaster by selling the irradiated citizens his “Atomic Hair Growth.” (The Nation, February 7/14, 2022, pp. 39-42)

P.S. Sorry about the quotes—the ital feature doesn’t seem to be working properly this morning. . .

I really like this one. Outstanding , thank you.

It doesn’t take a genius to destroy something, nor to build something grand. But it takes a pretty smart cookie to keep the dummies in check.

Hey, Herschel – you listening?

Scary because it’s so true.

Is the clown the one that’s going to bomb hurricanes or the one that’s going to bomb eastern Europe? I can’t tell the the two of them apart.

“The Skin of Our Teeth” by Thornton Wilder is being revived on Broadway.

Well represented in the classic ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’ by Walter Miller.

I like the juxtaposition, the alignment of agents of annihilation.

The circle of life so well depicted

That just about covers it.

“…in the year 2525, if man is still alive…”

I don’t think we’re headed for a repeat of the Cretaceous-Paleogene event (75% of all species extinct). I think we’re headed for another Permian Extinction (90-96%).

Whenever I watch a movie where the comet is threatening to hit and destroy life on Earth, I root for the comet.

Send in the clowns. Don’t bother, they’re here…

hmmm….speaking truth…evolution is for dummies

Nuclear weapons are akin to asteroids.

The existence of nuclear weapons represents a failure on the part of humanity. An adult, intelligent species would never have or even perceive the need for such things. The flaws in our way of life that cause and allow the creation of nuclear weapons are the same flaws that inevitably give control of them to madmen and clowns.

What comes after that? Another rought of blobs of protoplasm? Another declaration of “Fiat Lux!”?

If Putin pushes his red button, we will push our red button. That will end all speculation about planet killer asteroids. They will no longer be needed.

judging from the logo on the bomb, its an actinium bomb, on account of 3 electrons in the outer shell.

Or evolution OF dummies.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

What was that science fiction story about a star that went supernova around 3400 BCE, thereby obliterating all its planets, including the one with intelligent life? Yes, THAT one, the light of which reached Earth just in time to guide the Three Wise Guys to Bethlehem. Was that God’s work too?

Looks like a do-over to me.

LOL. Yes, it is.

As long as they only have rubber nuclear weapons.